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Subject: How to make a glowing material?

Black_Star opened this issue on Apr 14, 2007 · 7 posts
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Black_Star ( ) posted Sat, 14 April 2007 at 9:58 AM · edited Sun, 28 July 2024 at 4:17 AM

Hy there!

Have any ideea on how to make a glowing material that will light and color it's surroundings.I know it can be made , but I don't know how.
Thank you in advance!

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svdl ( ) posted Sat, 14 April 2007 at 4:35 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2217752&page=1

Here's the thread. Hope it helps

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Black_Star ( ) posted Sun, 15 April 2007 at 12:11 AM

The tips in there are for Poser 6.But I know someone has already built some light sabers for Poser 4!
I don't know where they are now and I canot find them anymore.But I have a picture saved.
It might be possible thah he used a simple plane with transparency for the "glowing effect"?

Acadia ( ) posted Sun, 15 April 2007 at 12:18 AM

Attached Link: http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/tutorial/tutorial/-/?id=752

The only way I know how to do it is with the gather node in Poser 6, or in post work

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modus0 ( ) posted Sun, 15 April 2007 at 3:56 AM

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All the lightsaber models I've seen for Poser used a transparency for the blades, but without adding ambient light they don't tend to look very bright or impressive.

In all versions of Poser, you can set the ambient for the glowing object to the color and intensity you desire, although in P5 and earlier you need to have a light shining toward whatever is supposed to be lit by the glowing object, color matching (roughly at least) the glowing object.

So, to do an image of a person in a dark room holding a green lightsaber up near their face, you'd need to set the ambient intensity to '1' on the lightsaber blade material, and change the color to green.

You'd then need to set up a spotlight, positioned to point at the person, particularly the areas that would be lit by the lightsaber, also colored green, and fiddle with the light intensity to get the right kind of illumination. A lightsaber probably gives of about as much light as a small camping lantern, enough to illuminate things within 1-2 feet, but not beyond that. You may also ned to add additional lights to give a glow to the hands, or anything else close by, setup like the initial spotlight.

While I'm using a lightsaber for this, you could apply these steps to anything that needs to glow and cast light on something else.

I did the attached image in P7, but it should be possible to get the same effect in P4, with just about anything.

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Black_Star ( ) posted Mon, 16 April 2007 at 1:28 AM

Thank you for your help!

shedofjoy ( ) posted Mon, 16 April 2007 at 3:53 AM

there are good tutorials on the Gather node, these create good glow effects and you need no lights at all in the scene.

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